By the time the dust finally settled on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama carried Pennsylvania by 5 percentage points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. So, just how correct were Pennsylvania’s army of pollsters in predicting the final electoral outcome? To find out, let’s play the political nerd’s favorite game show: The Polls Are Right. The first pollster to hit the actual electoral result – without going over – wins. In Allentown, the final Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll had Obama beating Romney 49 percent to 46 percent in a canvass released on the Monday before Election Day. The poll of 430 likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 5...

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